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Dick Bolles, the author of "What Color is Your Parachute?" offers keys to finding job happiness such as considering growth opportunities and working conditions when weighing a job. "You might be willing to take a pay cut to get one of those other factors. Those who aren’t at least considering this are going through life fishing for the biggest salary while being miserable," he says.

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To research salaries when job hunting, check out sites such as Jobstar.org, Salary.com and Glassdoor.com, writes Richard Bolles, author of "What Color is Your Parachute?" The Bureau of Labor Statistics also operates several online resources for researching salaries.

There are logical motives behind common interview questions, Vivian Giang writes, citing the book "What Color Is Your Parachute?" by Richard Bolles. For instance, when an interviewer asks why you left your previous job, they're baiting you to find out if you will bad-mouth former colleagues.

No manager is going to announce "I'm horrible to work for" during a job interview, which means you'll need to investigate the matter yourself, Alison Green writes. Ask questions about the boss' management style and use LinkedIn to get a sense of his or her reputation. "The key is to know what you want, what you can tolerate and what's a deal-breaker for you at this particular point in your career," Green writes.

A new report from the National Commission on Asian-American and Pacific Islander Research in Education considers how disaggregated data on AAPI students is being collected and used by schools to better track and serve certain minority student populations. Aggregated data was shown to paint an inaccurate picture of the status of trends in outcomes for some student subgroups, the research showed. "This is particularly problematic when it conceals significant disparities in opportunities and outcomes for some AAPI subgroups," the study's authors wrote.

Richard Bolles, author of the "What Color Is Your Parachute" series that has been running since the 1970s, says job-hunting advice hasn't changed much over the decades, and networking is still the best way to land a position. He adds one significant way job searching has been altered is the ease in networking through sites such as LinkedIn, and the ability of employers to easily glean information on job seekers through the Internet.